across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you then tomorrow. you then tomorrow one of the many revelations to come out of the january six committees, was trump attorney general bill barr described in his own words how he pushed back against trump s claims of election fraud. he called those claims bogus, crazy stuff, and most notoriously complete bs despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1st, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election, and throughout the first two years of his administration, was a point. it was a grave injustice, and it was unprecedented in american history. the law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country who are involved in
our top story tonight, murder charges in the death of tyre nichols, five former police officers now in custody as prosecutors lay out their case for the public. cnn s don lemon is on the ground for us in memphis. don, each of these men now facing several very, very serious criminal charges including second-degree murder, you re there on the scene talking to a lot of folks. give us the latest. reporter: extremely serious charges, second-degree murder as you said, wolf, aggravated assault. aggravated kidnapping which is an interesting one. official misconduct and official oppression. those are the charges that could land these officers in jail for a very long time if they are found guilty in a court of law. now, the director of the tennessee bureau of investigation, david roush, he held a press conference with the district attorney here saying according to david roush that he found what the officers actions as to what he saw in the videotape sickening. watch this. simply p
there are new questions tonight about the source of substantial loans the congressman george santos s campaign. the embattled republican, who s been caught in a web of lies as you know, previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign, totaling more than $700,000. a new filings with the election commission, he is indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds, those were left on marked. i want to turn out right away to cnn political commentator, jonah goldberg, and ashley allison. national politics reporter, eva mckend. eva, let me begin with you here about the new questions around these loans. what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign? laura, the blood broad outlines of the story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $700,000. that was in the filing. he also has reiterated, he went on that podcast with congressman matt gates not too lo
nichols, who was pulled over by police, and three days later was dead after what in an of topsey was called extensive bleeding. it was caused by a severe beating. but will anybody face any charges? plus, some teachers in florida are locking down every book in their classroom libraries. why? out of fear they could face criminal charges if but they let kids read books. but i ve not been pretty approved, under some new state law. that s right, how books in a classroom could suddenly break the law. there is a speech on the house floor tonight like nothing that has ever happened before. it was written by an artificial intelligence. it is called chatgpt. tonight, congressman jake will be here to tell us how he used it to write his speech on the floor. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, but i want to begin with a concern and anticipation over the release of the video of tyree nichols encounter with police that ended three days later in his death in the firing of five officers and to
transportation is looking into what caused southwest airlines travel meltdown last month. this is what we begin with. memphis on edge this morning, the city is bracing for the release of police body cam video of officers beating tyre nichols after a traffic stop that turned deadly. we re waiting to see if officers involved will face charges. i have a warning for you, we re going to show you a photo of tyre nichols in his hospital bet before he died. his family has seen the body cam footage they say it s horrific. they demanding murder charges. they say officers beat tyre like a human pinata for several minutes. sara sidner joins us this morning. they re bracing for the video in memphis. the chief condemning what happened to tyre. this is an awful sorry all around. reporter: it is. because we have not seen the video and the public has not seen the video, there is great concern here about what the response is going to be. but we do know that this was a vicious attack really